Fundamentals of Quantitative Modeling

About this Course

How can you put data to work for you? Specifically, how can numbers in a spreadsheet tell us about present and past business activities, and how can we use them to forecast the future? The answer is in building quantitative models, and this course is designed to help you understand the fundamentals of this critical, foundational, business skill. Through a series of short lectures, demonstrations, and assignments, you’ll learn the key ideas and process of quantitative modeling so that you can begin to create your own models for your own business or enterprise. By the end of this course, you will have seen a variety of practical commonly used quantitative models as well as the building blocks that will allow you to start structuring your own models. These building blocks will be put to use in the other courses in this Specialization.

This course is part of multiple programs
This course can be applied to multiple Specializations or Professional Certificates programs.

Completing this course will count towards your learning in any of the following programs:

  • Business and Financial Modeling Specialization
  • Finance & Quantitative Modeling for Analysts Specialization

SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN


  • Modeling
  • Linear Regression
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Regression Analysis